Three points, two towers, one dream: the casualties of Keegans last stand

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THE melancholy tinkle of cheap china filled the small room where Kevin Keegan should have been sitting. Adam Crozier, the chief executive of the Football Association, peered at the dregs in his coffee cup and talked with due solemnity about the passing of another England manager. An untidy pile of orange peel and a heap of gently whirring tape recorders littered the white tablecloth in front of him as he gave his elegy to “an immensely decent and likeable bloke”.

There was some gallows humour in the Red Bar, which was once Keegan’s favoured post-match retreat. The tricoteurs tittered when